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I'd have a heart to heart with my child and tell them that there is a time and place. In front of the class isn't the time or place. I'd schedule a meeting with the teacher and try to mediate between the two. The boy seems to have something honest and thoughtful to say and I'd help him say it in a more appropriate way.

As a highly qualified teacher who has only been able to secure a substitute job due to staff cuts and overwhelming competition where the winners are the applicants who "know the right people", it makes me sick to hear about teachers who become lazy in their careers. If teaching is "just a paycheck" to her, she should go get her paycheck somewhere else and let teachers who are passionate about this career take over.

End rant.

If what this student is saying is true, then as a parent, I would not be angry with him for his remarks.

I'd have a heart to heart with my child and tell them that there is a time and place. In front of the class isn't the time or place. I'd schedule a meeting with the teacher and try to mediate between the two. The boy seems to have something honest and thoughtful to say and I'd help him say it in a more appropriate way.

Wow she needs to lose her job. Now that being said my Childs school uses packets but it's also a Christian charter school. Only pre k and kindergarten don't have packets. The grades who use packets the teachers are still expected to teach.

Ray also admitted the "setting and the tone could have been different" about Bliss' statements.

Bliss' mother is relieved the district didn't punish her son.

"When you take a chance like that, there could always be something that doesn't work out well," Rhonda Bliss said.

Jeff Bliss said he was standing up for his education but admits he could have handled it differently.

He hit a boiling point over a test in his World History class Tuesday morning.

"My question was, why we don't get the same amount of time to take the test as the rest of her classes," said Bliss.

He says his teacher replied with profanity telling him to stop his questioning and leave. That's when he erupted.

Bliss says in the rant, "If you would just get up and teach them instead of handing them a freaking packet, there's kids in here who don't learn like that."

Even though the video is viral, he said he doesn't want all the attention.

"I don't want people to look up to me as something to idolize or anything, I'm just as human as the next person," said Bliss.

He said he's received support from teachers and administrators.

Bliss said his mom was proud of him but said his attitude could have been better.

He said he backs up his outburst with his past because he dropped out of high school after his freshman year. He later returned and said he takes his schoolwork seriously. He asks that his teachers do the same.

Duncanville ISD released a statement reading, "We want our students and teachers to be engaged, but the method by which the student expressed his concern could have been handled in a more appropriate way."

I am glad to hear this kid did not get in to any trouble with the school.

I do, however, wish I knew if the school was looking in to the teacher. It seems more than obvious she lacks. The focus should be on her.

That's the difference...your school's teachers still teach. I'm wondering if the teacher in this clip relies on the packets to do the teaching for her. Most teachers I've met are wonderful and will use packets as a tool (for review or to keep large amounts of info organized) while still presenting a lesson to the kids. I'm fine with that.

Quoting mmtosam06:

Wow she needs to lose her job. Now that being said my Childs school uses packets but it's also a Christian charter school. Only pre k and kindergarten don't have packets. The grades who use packets the teachers are still expected to teach.

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